How to cool your hard Disk under Rs.100

One of the most important, yet overlooked component of your PC is the Hard disk.
Here's where all your precious memories, softwares, games, documents and lots more reside!
Cooling the hard disk will not only Significantly increase its life, but some performance too!

Commercial hard drive coolers are available, but they cost a bomb and are difficult to install.
Here,i'll teach you how to do that in under RS 100. (US dollars 2 ONLY)

Step 1 Get some fans

Get some fans.

 

I used 60mm fans from a local PC shop. They were about RS 40 each.

You can use any size Computer fans as long as they fit on the hard disk.

Comments

[Treknology]

I had a bunch of SCSI drives that all had to be mounted in a single block, each atop the previous, leaving no room for individual fans. They were built into a very quiet case and I had two 6" fans as forced ventilation. Having a spare 5 1/4 bay, I used the front cover to mount switches for the fans from 12V, 5V and Off (for when I was recording audio). I also noted temperature variations of up to 20 Kelvin.

The only criticism I have of your idea is that it is the control PCB that you want to concentrate on cooling, not the casing.

[bhvm]

Pardon the Grainy Pics, Fans ARE aimed at the casing and not the PCB. Its the Spindle motor and Air friction that makes most the heat(Casing), and thats were we're concentrating.

[altainta]

Neat but lack a little

[bhvm]

Whats exactly lacking?
Tell me so I can re-do the write up!

[altainta]

Nothing serious just the Quality of images.
It will be noisy
How ever the Rubber get dirty soon like a mess but it is still good
And why u used a decade old HDD ? :)
Hey keep it up i liked it

[bhvm]

Sorry for the Grainy images,
They were extracted as frames from a video camera.
Acually the whole instructable is quite old ,but basic funda is still the same and works for any HDD.